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Polycystins 1 and 2 mediate mechanosensation in the primary cilium of kidney cells.
Nature genetics - 1 Feb 2003
Nauli Surya M, Alenghat Francis J, Luo Ying, Williams Eric, Vassilev Peter, Li Xiaogang, Elia Andrew E H, Lu Weining, Brown Edward M, Quinn Stephen J, Ingber Donald E, Zhou Jing
Abstract excerpt
Several proteins implicated in the pathogenesis of polycystic kidney disease (PKD) localize to cilia. Furthermore, cilia are malformed in mice with PKD with mutations in TgN737Rpw (encoding polaris). It is not known, however, whether ciliary dysfunction occurs or is relevant to cyst formation in...
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